Kremenets
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Kremenets is a city in Ternopil Oblast, western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Kremenets Raion, and lies 18 kilometres north-east of the Pochaiv Lavra. The city is situated in the his
Kremenets panorama from the Castle Hill
Former Franciscan abbey and the castle on Bona Hill
Epiphany Convent
Kremenets Castle
Cossacks
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The Cossacks or Kozak are a predominantly East Slavic, Eastern Orthodox Christian militant people, originating from the Pontic–Caspian steppe of eastern Ukraine and southern Russia. Cossacks played an
Kremenets
…Magdeburg rights in 1431, and in 1569, after the Union of Lublin, it became part of Crown of Poland, known as Polish: Krzemieniec. In the fall of 1648 Cossack Colonel Maxym Kryvonis surrounded the Kremenets fortress. In October, after a six-week siege, the royal garrison surrendered. As a consequence of the…
An American Cossack family in the 1950s
Cossacks marching in Red Square at the 2015 Victory Day Parade
Cossack bandurist, 1890
Ottoman Turks in battle against the Cossacks, 1592